Day 9 - The Video

Facebook members: 163

I am currently imbibing myself with the first alcohol since New Year's Day, therefore my impetus to write stuff is diminishing. Not drinking has the quite satisfying effect of making the alcohol that you do drink that much more effective. Anyway, I digress. Another day of 50% growth in the membership numbers. If this were to continue for the whole year we would have this number of members by Christmas day:

4.86 x 10^73

There are a few technicality issues with that. Mainly that it is 7.25 x 10^61 times bigger than the entire population of the planet. I don't think we need that many members to get to number one. It is promising stuff though. Realistically, if we can make 1,000 members by the end of January I think we have a serious chance of making top 10. I really mean that!

I have been making some enquiries as to what we do with the physical product when we get to release date. Ideally, we need some distribution to make the CD (and potentially Christmas orientated picture disk) available in the shops (if there are any music retail shops left by then). We also need some help with radio contacts. All these things are really not easy for an independent label to achieve and it is the main dividing factor between the small and large record labels, power and money. What we really need is to combine resources with other smaller labels. We'll see what happens on that front.

So, back to the list. Where were we? Ah yes, step 5.

Step 5 - The Video

I've already mentioned the video for Last Christmas. The video for Band Aid is also pretty iconic. Viral marketing seems to be so important at the moment., especially when making things that shouldn't really be famous, famous. Thing is, we've only ever made one video before. I am pretty comfortable writing songs and I like being involved in artwork and stuff but the last video I made was total sh1t. Basically, our first band was called Freshly Cut Sandwiches (I know, I know, you have to learn from these things) and we had to make a video that was to be projected on to a big screen when we played a gig. I knew that there was a shop in our home town right at the top of the high street which has one of those newsagents style signs that said 'Freshly Cut Sandwiches' on it. So we started at the bottom of the high street and filmed all the way to the top, with the final shot being in the window of this shop. To cut a sh1t story short, the sign wasn't there when we got to the end. We ran the video anyway. It was as good as you can imagine.

So yes, we'd like to do something better than that if possible. If anyone has any good ideas or is good at filming stuff then please let me know.

Right, I am off down the pub. Until tomorrow.